Faculty/Author Profile

Craig Moffett

MoffettNathanson LLC

Partner and Senior Research Analyst

New York, NY, USA

Craig Moffett has consistently been ranked as the top analyst in the U.S. in both the U.S. Telecom and Cable & Satellite sectors.

He was rated the #1 analyst in the U.S. Telecommunications sector by Bloomberg Markets in their first annual research poll in 2012, and e has been ranked among the top analysts in Telecommunications in the U.S. in Institutional Investor’s survey every year since 2008, securing the #1 ranking in 2011 and #2 ranking in 2012. He has received Greenwich’s #1 Research Quality ranking in the U.S. Telecommunications sector in each of the past four years.

Mr. Moffett has also been ranked as the top analyst in the U.S. Cable and Satellite sector. He was ranked #1 for eight consecutive years, from 2005-2012, according to both Institutional Investor Magazine and the Greenwich Research quality rankings (he was ineligible in 2013).

Prior to founding MoffettNathanson, Mr. Moffett spent more than ten years at Sanford Bernstein & Co., LLC as a senior research analyst. In 2011 he became the first analyst in the firm’s history to be ranked #1 in two sectors simultaneously by Institutional Investor.

He was previously the President and founder of the e-commerce business at Sotheby’s Holdings, the venerable auction house. In 1999, he led Sothebys.com to what was then the highest first year sales of any consumer website ever launched.

Mr. Moffett spent more than eleven years at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Partner and Vice President specializing in telecommunications. He was the leader of BCG’s global Telecommunications practice from 1996 to 1999. While at BCG, he led client initiatives in the U.S. local, long distance, and wireless sectors, in both consumer and commercial services, and advised companies outside the U.S. in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. His relationship with a U.S. RBOC spanned more than a decade, and he was the author of more than 20 articles about the telecommunications industry during the 1990s. He published analyses and forecasts of the overcapacity and pending collapse of the U.S. long distance business as early as 1998. Mr. Moffett graduated from Harvard Business School with Honors in 1989. He received a BA from Brown University phi beta kappa in 1984.